The gender pension gap of 1539, or how women got screwed by the Dissolution of Monasteries (long read)

Don't work but don't get married and don't count on a living pension. This is an audio read of The gender pension gap of 1539, or how women got screwed by the Dissolution of Monasteries.

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(00:00) - The Gender Pension Gap of 1539
(01:17) - The gender pension gap, or how women got screwed by the dissolution of monasteries.
(02:37) - Dissolution 101
(04:01) - The (near) impossibility of marriage or work
(06:00) - Pay on your way in, get paid on your way out
(08:20) - Sidebar: What happened to "Jillian Heron the idiot"?
(09:57) - The making of a pension gap
(11:25) - Sidebar: How do we know all this?
(13:56) - Sidebar: Could you live on £2.67 a year?
(15:00) - "Many a young nun proved an old beggar"
(18:06) - Outro

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Don't work but don't get married and don't count on a living pension. This is an audio read of The gender pension gap of 1539, or how women got screwed by the Dissolution of Monasteries.

★ Support this podcast ★
On this episode:

What do you think?

Jump to:

(00:00) - The Gender Pension Gap of 1539
(01:17) - The gender pension gap, or how women got screwed by the dissolution of monasteries.
(02:37) - Dissolution 101
(04:01) - The (near) impossibility of marriage or work
(06:00) - Pay on your way in, get paid on your way out
(08:20) - Sidebar: What happened to "Jillian Heron the idiot"?
(09:57) - The making of a pension gap
(11:25) - Sidebar: How do we know all this?
(13:56) - Sidebar: Could you live on £2.67 a year?
(15:00) - "Many a young nun proved an old beggar"
(18:06) - Outro

🇬🇧 Shop in the UK bookshop
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